Holden High School - Eagle Yearbook (Holden, MO)

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4...0.0..0..0-we-l-coco:-vac-cf-Q-we-fu ggi 50915 poioioiavianxrrinioioioioioiozcozu Senior Activities Q 0 ' 7 Junior - Senior Banquet The Senior Class, Faculty, Board of Education, and their guests were entertained by the Junior Class and their sponsors, Mrs. Charles Williams and Mrs. Wendell Hallar at the Showboat Banquet held Thursday evening, May 5, in the High School Auditorium. The theme was carried out from the inside of the Sho-wboat, complete with the fater wheel. The view from the deck looked out into an old-fashioned park on shore. The Senior Class colors were carried out in the table decorations with mint green candles hav- ing silver ruffles in candleholders of silver. The centerpieces were yellow roses in a boat-shaped containers. The Sophomore Girls, dressed as Show- boat girls in full gingham dresses of either check- ed yellow or green, were assisted in serving by the Sophomore boys, dressed in dark trousers, white shirts, and bow ties. The Junior mothers pre- pared the menu of grapefruit puice cocktail, steak with sauce, creamed new potatoes, green beans, tossed salad, hot rolls, butter, jelly, angelfood cake, ice cream, nuts, mints, and coffee. The program followed throughout the evening: Toastmaster ,,,,,,,......................,...... Eugene Davidson Invocation ,,,,,, ...... M r. J. W. Bullard Toast to Seniors ..... ...... C harles Tevis Response ,................................................... Wanda Snare Vocal Duet .... Flossie Kassing, Myrna Daugherty You Tell Me Your Dreams, I'll Tell You Mine Accompanist, Armetta Whiteman Toast to Faculty ...... - ....... . ...... Rebecca Graham Response ,.,........ . ,..... ...................,.,.,.. M r. Troy E. Hirni Pantomime .....,., Beverly Houx, Eugene Davidson, Claude Bradbury No, No, A Thousand Times No Singers ,... Myrna. Daugherty, Mary Jo Hampton, Carol Sue Weeks, Willadene McCarty Accompanist, Flossie Kassing Toast to Board of Education ....... - ....... Betty Jones Response ............. .........,.. M r. Clarence McKenna Soft Shoe Dance .... Flossie Kassing, Doyne Hough Strolling Through The Park Singers ................ Helen Burke, Mary Io Hampton, Willadene McCarty Accompanist, Mrs. Charles VVilliams An orchestra from Central Missouri State Col- lege provided music for the dance which followed the banquet. Refreshments of cake and punch were served by the Junior Class. Presldenft s Farewell by Wanda Snare, Class President Faculty, friends, and parents, we appreciate your interest in joining us here tonight for the Life show of the Class of 1955.1 We wish to thank you for your time and friendship which you have given us so freely. We especially want to thank our parents and teachers who have had so much patience with us and guided us during the twelve years we have strived for this goal. Seniors, it has been a pleasure and an honor to serve as your class president this past year. I have enjoyed working with you and want to thank You for the cooperation. Although this ends our high school career, we will go out into the world each seeking our field and remembering that Our Best Today Is Our Beginning Tomorrow. Good luck and God bless you for your cooperation. D. A. Good Citizenship Award The D. A. R. Good Citizens Committee, for the promotion of better citizenship, conducts nation- wide contests open to girls in senior classes of ac- credited High Schools. From three names pre- sented to the Senior Class by the faculty, Wanda Snare was elected to receive the Good Citizenship Award given by the Elizabeth Randolph Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Wanda was selected on the basis 'of the following qualities: ' 1. Dependability, including truthfulness, loyal- ty, and punctuality. 2. Service, including cooperation, courtesy and consideration of others. J 3. Leadership, with personality, self-control and ability to assume responsibility and leadership. 4. Patriotism, unselfish interest in family, school, community and nation Wanda and her mother, Mrs. Earl Thomas, were guests of the Daughters of the American Revolution at a meeting Thursday evening, April 14, 1955, at the home of Mrs. F. E. Ross. Mrs. E. B. Cast, Good Citizenship Chairman, explained the awards given by the Daughters of the American Revolution and presented Wanda to the local chapter. Mrs. Harry Kluttz. Regent, made the presentation of the award and the medal.

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4 o 50 ....--..-,.....-- Ur. fagz. ---.-.--,...---.-....... Senior Activities I Senior Play The Senior Class of 1955 presented a three- act comedy, Taming the Brat on Thursday eve- ning, April 21, 1955 at the Holden High School Auditorium. The play was under the direction of Miss Lucille Burroughs. When Lottie took her job as the Nagels' maid, she thought the chaos caused by their spoiled infant Janice would end as the little darling grew up. But, as Lottie says, she was wrong - the Nagels never let Janice grow up. At fifteen she is still coddled and pampered like a two-year-old. Jerry Hughes, a nice boy of sixteen, knows this very well, but he can't help having a terrific crush on Janice, even though she treats him like a dog and makes him wish she'd fall for somebody her- self and see how it is. Then she does fall - and hard - for Jess Pomeroy, a handsome football player. To make it complete, Jess takes no interest in her whatever: he has a. girl. This causes Janice to have the worst tantrum of her life, and her par- ents to have a riot. Up till nolw, they have been able' to go out and get her what she wanted, but this tantrum can't be stopped. Jerry is very happy. This wil cure the brat. But his joy is short-lived. To his surprise, he finds next day that Jess is play- ing right along with Janice. He is most discourag- ed. So is his pal Dave because he and Jerry are to play in a local tennis match tomorrow, and they'll never win with Jerry in such a state. Dave decides something has to be done, and he soon finds out why Jess is so sweet on Janice. It seems that Janice's parents are trying to buy her the man she wants, just as they've bought her everything else since she was born. This discovery is made at a party, and it results in a near riot which causes Janice to go into her worst tantrum ever, and also bring Jess and his real girl to a near break-up. Things are in a pretty sad state by the next morn- ing, but Janice surprises everyone with a sudden change for the better and everything is straighten- ed out beautifully. The cast was as follows: Lottie. the Nagels' middle-aged maid, Donna Kay Billingsley. Mrs. Nagel, the mother of Janice, Addie Mae Skaggs. ' Mr. Nagel, the father, a middle-aged business- man, LeRoy Ditton. Jess Pomeroy, a big, good-looking football play- er, Cecil Long. Jerry Hughes, a likable boy of sixteen, some- what naive, Gary Garrett. Dave Martin, Jerry's pal and tennis partner, Robert DesCombes. Louise, a gossipy teen-ager, decidedly silly in her speech and manner, Nancy Jo Dunn. Myrtle, not unlike Louise, but a little more reticient, Ina Mae Young. Janice Nagel, spoiled, self-indulgent fifteen- year-old, Carolyn Morrow, Myra Jason, Jess's girl, Wanda Lou Shippy. SPECIALTIES Piano solo, 'Ebbtide Kay Lewis. Vocal solo, 'I Believe Calvin Crawford. Leland Stowell Awarded State Farmer Degree Leland Stowell, a member of the Holden FFA Chapter, received the highest degree possible in the Missouri Future Farmers Organization at the 26th Annual Missouri FFA Convention at Columbia, Missouri. To be eligible forthe State Farmer Award, a boy must have shown outstanding lead- ership in the FFA, have a good farming program in 0l?'6Y'2lti0U. pass a state examination on the FFA and parliamentary procedure. Leland, the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. James Stowell, was raised to the degree of Greenhand in October, 1952 and Chapter Farmer in 1953. He started out with one registered Holstein heifer and six acres of corn his freshman year in High School and has expanded until at the present he has three cows, one heifer, one registered Hol- stein bull, and twenty-nine ewes and lambs. I-Ie also has one third interest in nine cows, one heifer, twenty-six ewes and lambs, fifty acres of small grain and forty-six acres of hay. Leland has been very active in the FFA and Vocational Agricultureg he has participated in farm mechanics, livestock judging, and farm meats identification, judging on the district and state level. He is president of the Holden FFA and was treasurer his junior year. Leland played on the FFA Basketball Team two years and was on the track team one year. Holden High School has had ten State Farm- ers. Other boys having received this degree are: Norman Briscoe, 19483 Jack Jones, 19495 Wendell Daniel and Carl Stumpff, 1950g Sam William Raber and Kerry Kephart, 1951: Jimmie Bruns, 19523 Russell McCannon, 19533 and Donal Bruns, 1954. Eight of these boys have received this de- gree under the leadership of Mr. Harry Crim, Vocational Agriculture Instructor in Holden High School the past six years. Senior Day At Central Missouri State College The Senior Class attended the annual Senior Day, April 20, 1955, on the campus of Central Missouri State College in WVarrensburg. The events of the day were sponsored by the faculty and students of the college. They were as follows: Registration .......................................,.... Student Center Organ Music . .................... .................. . Hendricks Hall Professor John McCoy Convocation ....... . ............................. Hendricks Hall Eleanor Fisher Intergroup Relations Chairman Group Singing ....,...,,,,........,,,.,,,,,,,, Bill Grace, leader Address 'The American Dream Dr. G. YV. Diemer Campus Tours ........,.,,..,,.,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Student Guides Lunch .....................,,. .....,,,,.,,, S ocial Hall Student Program ..,. ....,. H endricks Hall Career Conference ..... .... C ollege Professors Recreation Hour .... ..,,,..,.., S ocial Hall

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- -..- U11 sage ---....-9.- Senzor Act1v1t1es Junlor Play The play Relatnes by Affect on was pre sented by the Junlor Class ln the Hlbh School Audltorlum on December 16 1954 The cast Robert Evans a small town banker Gordon Kendrlck Margaret hls wlfe Beverly Houx Shlrley thelr llteraly daughter Llla Dean Snlder Emma Raft the housekeeper MQFJOFIS Morrlson Hobart the butler lames Dean Flnley Davls Shlrleys flancee Tom Carter Dr Yen a Cl'l1l16S6 gentleman Eugene Dayldson Mrs Yen hls wlfe Flossle If2.SSll'1g Ho Wang thelr son Burl Acklln Wah Ch ng thelr dauahter Myrna Daugherty Tze Ifldllg a Chlnese actress Rebecca Graham Blrds Nc-st a servln, woman Janet Cameron Slng an lllerate COClle Claude Bradbury Newspaper Reporter J W Counts v Newspaper Photographer Gene MeV! hlft Shlrley Evans wrote a llterary masterplece of twenty words and won 1 slx months trlp to the Orlent and back YVhlle there she became mlxed up ln the war and was 16SCd6d by a young Chmese nelltlenlan I-lo Wang son of the Iens ACCOTdlDgl5 the Yens followed her back to Amerlca prepared to place the matter before the Evans fam1l5 Mrs Evans ,oes all out to make the Sens stay ln her home pleasant even to the nolnt of uslng sofa cushlons lnstead of chalrs wearlng klmonos and hlrlnb 1 Chlnese servant for them To teach hls vslfe a lesson Mr Evans really Does Chlnese to the extent of serwln, repulslve Chlnese food and appolntlng hlmself Lord Hlgh Elder of the House of Ex ans He even lets every one b9l16V6 that a marrlage contract wlll be slgn ed between Ho Wan, and Shlrley although both young people are ln love Wlth someone else No end of comlllcatlons arlse between mem bers of both famllles and servants before a famlly COul'lCll lS held Romances have sprouted exen 'lmong the servants Hobart and Emma Slng and Blrds Nest, the twltterlng Chlnese mald Flnally the women assert thelr lndependence and evelythlng IS stralghtened out to the S3.tlSf3C tlon or all concerned Homecomlng The annu 11 homecommg of Holden Hlgh School was held November 12 Wlth Rlch Hlll and Holden battllng each other on the grldlron Durlng the halftlme ceremonles the band under the dlrectlon of Mr Kamlnever announced the arrlval of the candldates on the fleld The candldates vsere presented to the crowd as they made thelr way to the thlone The candldates and th6ll escorts were serllor candldate Sandra Jones escorted b3 Donnle Hensley Jllnlor candldmte Betty .Tones escorted by Claude Bradbury sopho more candldate Gall DeMastels escorted Charles D1ttOH freshman candldate Annette At klnson escorted by Ralph Franklln football can dldate Myrna Daugherty escorted by John Beaty, and Pep Squad candldate Ina Mae Young escort ed by Ora Stumpff The followlnb former queens were presented 1953 54 Mlss Sulanne Flsher 1959 53 MISS Wallda Snare 195152 MISS Patsy Earlv 1950 51 Mlss Donna Sue Jones and 1949 50 MarJorle Hough Carleton iMrs Kennethl MlSS Myrna Daugherty was crowned queen oy Cecll Long co captaln of the team and vsas presented two dozen roses by Wanda Snare Presldent of the Student Councll Followlng the game the fans gathered at the hlgh school for the darue vuhlch was attended by students alumnl and parents of both schools The bym was decorated VVlfh blue and whlte streamers runnln, from the celllng to floor and from east to west of the gym Phe north backboard had a Whlte H on a solld blue background for Holden and the south backboard had a red R ' on a dark blue background for Rlch Hlll The dance was started by Myrna Daugherty her escort the attendants and thelr escorts Re freshments of punch and cookles were served The 1954 55 Homecomlng was a breat success and en loyed by everyone Representatlves Elected To Boys and Glrls State Fach year the Amerlcan Leglon and Amerlcan Leglon Auxlllary sponsor a Bovs State and a Glrls State The purpose of each IS to educate youth ln the dutles prlvlleges rlghts and responslbllltles of Amerlcan cltlzenshlp and also to develop lead ershlp Outstandlng boys and glrls of hlbh moral char acter good sportsmanshlp and potentrll leadershlp tendencles are wanted at Boys and Glrls State The student selected to go must be ln the top thlrd of hlS or her class scholastlcally shall have leadershlp character courage honesty cooperatlveness phy slcal fltness and lnterest ln government procedure and must have completed the Junlor year of Hlgh School Work ThlS year the Holden Chamber of Commerce ulll sponsor Gene Davldson of Holden Hlgh School and the Munday Hancock Post of the Amel'1C2m Leglon Wlll sponsor Louls Buntln of Klngsvllle Hlgh School at Warrensburg June 1219 The Amerlcan Leglon Auxlllary wlll sponsor Rebecca Graham at Glrls State at Wllllams Woods College at Fulton June 19 96 . . 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